「카페 느와르」가 Los Angeles Film Festival 2010 에서 상영됩니다. 미국 외부에서 만들어진 혁신적이고 독립적인 내러티브와 다큐멘터리를 다룬 영화 20편을 소개하는 International Showcase 중에 포함되어 있습니다. (공식홈페이지 안내 링크)

Café Noir
International Showcase
(South Korea, 2009, 197 mins)
In Korean with English subtitles
North American premiere
Directed By: Jung Sung-Il

Producer: Kim Jong-won
Screenwriter: Jung Sung-il
Cinematographer: Kim Jun-young
Editor: Moon In-dae
Cast: Shin Ha-kyun, Kim Hye-na, Jung Yu-mi

Screening Schedule : Sun, Jun 20th 8:00pm, Wed, Jun 23rd 8:00pm

This formally rigorous, but sprawling and endlessly playful examination of unrequited love trails a heartsick music teacher as he wanders the lonely streets of Seoul. Having recently been unceremoniously dumped by his married lover, he finds himself drawn to a young woman in her own state of romantic purgatory. Writer-director Jung Sung-il may prove to be Korea’s answer to Jean-Luc Godard, an adventurous film critic turned auteur with an audacious vision. Witness Café Noir, his ambitious, subversively funny film debut that references Goethe, Dostoyevsky, leftist politics, Bollywood, and Christianity while paying loving homage to the last decade of Korean cinema.